The agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and aggressive stops on the city’s West Side at least one year before four Chicago police officers pulled over Dexter Reed and killed him in a barrage of gunfire, according to a document obtained by WTTW News.
Four officers fired 96 shots in 41 seconds at Reed on March 21, hitting him 13 times, shortly after he shot and wounded an officer, according to a preliminary investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA. Reed was stopped by a tactical team of officers in plainclothes driving an unmarked SUV.
